TY - JOUR
T1 - Response to Comment on Young-Hyman et al. Psychosocial Care for People With Diabetes: A Position Statement of the American Diabetes Association. Diabetes Care 2016;39:2126–2140
JF - Diabetes Care
JO - Diabetes Care
SP - e33
LP - e34
DO - 10.2337/dci17-0037
VL - 41
IS - 3
AU - Young-Hyman, Deborah
AU - de Groot, Mary
AU - Hill-Briggs, Felicia
AU - Gonzalez, Jeffrey S.
AU - Hood, Korey
AU - Peyrot, Mark
Y1 - 2018/03/01
UR - http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/41/3/e33.abstract
N2 - We thank Snoek et al. (1), writing on behalf of the Psychosocial Aspects of Diabetes Study Group of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), for support of the importance of the first American Diabetes Association (ADA) psychosocial position statement (2). These authors, who have been involved in the development of EASD and ADA collaborative guidelines (3–5), raise important considerations for both the focus of psychosocial recommendations and their implementation.The first issue raised is based on the view that ADA recommendations focused on mental illness rather than well-being or improvement of quality of life. We agree that psychosocially informed diabetes care involves more than attention to psychiatric comorbidity. We point the authors to the first set of general recommendations that cites the goal of care as “optimizing health outcomes and health-related quality of life,” which includes “addressing psychosocial problems upon identification” (2). Figure 1 (2) is structured to …
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